Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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